March 29 Singer Janet Jackson made her first network television interview following the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. May 14 Letterman decided to tape the episode for May 14, 2004 at 4 a.m. EST that morning with a full studio audience. The guests for the show included rat expert Robert Sullivan, humorist Amy Sedaris and the indie rock band Modest Mouse. Highlights included Late Show staff member Bob Borden oversleeping, looking for rats with Robert Sullivan on West 53rd Street, Biff spending the night with the NYPD and Amy Sedaris giving a tour of her neighborhood at 4 in the morning. There was also a special version of the show's intro showing a montage of Late Show staffers sleeping on their desks and at their workstations, Letterman riding to the Ed Sullivan Theater on a horse and a video of Hillary Clinton introducing the show. June 21 The rock band Phish, making their final television appearance before their farewell concert that August, performed an afternoon set atop the Ed Sullivan Theater's marquee for the taping of that evening's episode of Late Show. Although only one song was specifically taped for the show, Phish also performed five additional songs for the hundreds of fans that had gathered outside the theater. Phish would reunite in 2009, but they did not perform on Late Show again until 2014. 2005 January 31 Letterman's first show after long-time friend and mentor Johnny Carson had died. The show had been on a one-week hiatus since his death. As a tribute, Letterman's opening monologue included jokes written by Carson (news reports in the weeks leading to Carson's death revealed that he had been regularly writing and sending Letterman some jokes) as well as clips shown from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Other tributes to Carson in this episode included the band playing "Johnny's Theme" at the conclusion of Letterman's monologue, and use of title cards with the phrase, "More to Come" around commercial breaks (a standard feature of The Tonight Show during most of Carson's years there that has continued under Jay Leno's and Conan O'Brien's tenure). While describing how he felt about the news, Letterman stated: The guests for the episode were Peter Lassally, the executive producer of The Tonight Show during Carson's tenure, and former Tonight Show band leader Doc Severinsen. December 1 In what Dave jokingly referred to as the "Super Bowl